FuturesForHigherEducation. Buildings That Teach - Getting Smart by Carri Schneider - 10,000.
That’s the number that appeared on Craig Schiller’s computer screen at the start of his presentation to a small group of parents and faculty at my daughter’s school this week. “10,000 hours,” he explained. “It’s the number of hours according to Malcolm Gladwell that it takes to become an expert at something.” Schiller continued, “If each student spends about 14,000 hours in school buildings over the course of their educational career, what expertise do we want them to have when they graduate?”
Schiller is the founder of Build to Teach, an organization whose mission is to maximize sustainable design and the teaching potential of school buildings. As such, schools can be designed in such a way as to allow students to seamlessly engage with the environment in order to become well-versed in principles of sustainability by virtue of their regular, seamless integration with a school built on sustainable design principles. University libraries are shaping the future of learning and research.
Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University opened in 2006 and rewrote the design book for academic libraries.
Photograph: Vanessa Brown via GuardianWitness "The academic library has died," wrote Brian Sullivan, librarian at Alfred University, in an opinion piece responding to the gloomy tone of a 2011 report on the future of academic libraries. "One reason for cause of death is that library buildings were converted into computer labs, study spaces and headquarters for informational-technology departments.
" Although Sullivan is being facetious – the headline for his piece was 'Academic library autopsy report 2050' – there's no denying that the university library as we know it is changing. The future of education technology. New Study On IQ And National Per Capita Income. New Study On IQ And National Per Capita Income German social scientist Heiner Rindermann boldly goes where Tatu Vanhanen and Richard Lynn have gone before: Yet another study of the relationship between IQ and national per capita income.
It’s not just how free the market is. Some economists are looking at another factor that determines how much a country’s economy flourishes: how smart its people are. Should Colleges Charge Engineering Students More? - Real Time Economics. The Khan Academy; a new way of learning? The Khan Academy is a free online learning school covering a variety of topics.
It was created back in 2006 by Salman Khan and was developed following a couple of years of using online tools to tutor his cousin in mathematics. I caught an episode of BBC click earlier this summer where they were looking at how the Khan Academy was being used in the American classroom. There appeared to be positive results from this style, pupils that did not get along with the traditional methods of teaching were finding this new, collaborative but competitive style more successful. How it Works.
Employability. Community engagement. Teaching excellence. Research Impact. Facilities. Student experience. Student make-up. The Future of Higher Education Looks Nothing Like the Present. More and more students are attending two-year colleges instead of four-year schools.
Within five years, minorities will make up more than half of the country's under-18 population. And, by 2020, two thirds of all jobs will require education beyond high school—up from roughly a quarter 40 years ago. There are major changes in store for the nation's higher-education system, and it needs to adjust accordingly. Who students are, where they learn, and what they're taught are all on pace for—or in need of—major changes over the next decade, a panel of experts said Wednesday at the National Journal New Knowledge Economy policy summit.
Competition and International Strategy. Future_of_he.pdf. Future of Higher Education. The future of higher education - Futurist.com: Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra. All across America two things are happening about this time of year.
First, graduates of colleges and universities are walking to the stage to receive their diplomas. Second, high school seniors are confirming their plans to attend, or not to attend, various colleges and universities. This year both of these traditions are fraught with uncertainties that are high by historical standards. Let me explain. First, for full disclosure I spent my first career in higher education, on the admissions staff and then the faculty of one university, and subsequently teaching for two other universities before I left the education world after fifteen years, for consulting and my work as a full time futurist.
Yelp Better: Local Search App To Find Retail Social Enterprises - Technology. These days a finger tap on a mobile device yields reviews of everything from a five-star restaurant to a grungy hole-in-the-wall gem.
Foodies depend on contextualized local search to guide their chow hound adventures, and a new mobile application aims to become a Yelp for the socially-minded. “Social Impact” is a free app that utilizes the iPhone’s GPS system to display the closest retail social enterprises—including restaurants, coffee shops, and craft stores. The developers, Rolfe Larson Associates, have added nearly 700 businesses to the app's database so far—each include serving the common good as part of their mission. The developers are eager for users to suggest more socially progressive businesses to grow the network. “A social venture is a business that uses commercial means to accomplish a social purpose. " explains Social Impact founder, Rolfe Larson.
Image (cc) flickr user Ed Yourdon. Storyboarding the Future of Higher Education. This is a powerpoint based on the storyboard outline for The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education, the six-week Coursera course that will begin in late January 2014, and that is open to all, for free, without prerequisites of any kind.
We will be announcing the details as they are available. It is the heterogeneity of the students and the engaged, lively Forums we will conduct online that make this course, but, to find out the sequence of the six video lectures (to me, the least interesting component) please look below this blog and you will find them presented in "PowerPoint" form with a breakdown of the content of each week of the course and some segments within each week's lesson plan. I welcome comments that will prompt revision before I begin filming these videos in June. NOTE: This is an ACTIVIST course, with MOOCs not just the platform but also the subject matter for our online conversations.